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0205 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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eating up the people's plenty, but seem to be a re-
served and dignified body not over-numerous for
men so profoundly religious as are the Tibetans.
Throughout this vale of delight there seemed to be
a reasonable comfort, and with less apparent dis-
tinction between very rich and very poor than I
have seen elsewhere. The houses are rather large,
generally of two stories and of solid build; the
monasteries, from three to six stories high, rose in
dignity from all but inaccessible rocks. Supplica-
tion to heaven is literally "in the air." Nearly
every dwelling floats a closely written flag of prayer.
Occasionally a vertical cylinder, set in an outer
niche, permits the passing worship to be made by a
respectful twirl, or the deposit of another prayer-
slip that shall find its way to others inside the cylin-
der; whence, if there be a listening God, I think its
spirit shall fly to Him, for in His sight there should
be no little and no big, no poor and no rich, no
ridiculous and no solemn in religious ceremonial.
Your softly breathed prayer, but for the thought in
your heart, is only a vibration of the air. The
cylinder-prayer makes also a vibration of the air,
and as there is a thought behind it, the celestial
values may be equal.
In each village we were shown to some proper
place for receiving the stranger; abundant food was
procured,—that is, chickens, eggs, milk, and bread,
—and no effort was anywhere made to annoy us by
extortion. A pleasing drink, tasting 'twixt wine and
beer, cheered the thirsting palate. Curiosity to
watch our movements was strong but bridled. The
women looked frankly at us and merited our admiring